It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Sunday Sales advocates rejoice. The Senate Republican caucus has just voted and SB 10 will be allowed out of Rules and will be voted on as a stand alone bill, not as an amendment to SB 150, on Wednesday.

There are some technical corrections that need to be made to SB 10, so expect amendments. I would envision the amendment process to get quite lively. If you enjoy good political theater, get down to the Capitol early Wednesday, and bring a Costco sized tub of popcorn.

But the start stop restriction’s wording, as I understand it, has problems in that it sets mandatory sales times for jurisdictions that allow the sale, not a window of allowed sales.

There’s also an issue of no repeal clause, though local sales referendums have repeal paths. Thus, if a county/municipality voted to go dry, they apparently would still be required to sell on Sunday under existing language.

Unless these are/were fixed in committee (they weren’t during the first pass thru Slo Go), there will need to be amendments. And once you start amending….

Anybody know why the General Assembly calendar keeps showing that HB 69 (Sunday Sales) is/was scheduled for its third reading/vote every single day in the House? Are they required to do this on legislation that moves out of committee but is not taken up on the Floor?